The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ God’s removal from sleep and the consequences of that are on the level of divine knowledge and spiritual perfection ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 183 من الجزء Two

And when God removed Himself from the attribute of sleep, He said, “Neither sleep nor sleep can take it.” That is, what the witnesses of the barzakh misses from the witnesses of the world of senses from the witnesses of meanings outside of materials in the event that they do not occur in the barzakh and under its rule. And God may grant some of His servants this awareness despite the fact that He is not characterized. That he does not sleep, I mean in the state of this world and its creation. As for the hereafter, the people of Paradise do not sleep in Paradise, and nothing of the world is hidden from them. Rather, every scholar is on his level, and they are witnessed, even though they are not characterized by sleep. It is said that so-and-so slept and saw such-and-such, meaning he saw upside down, and he is a man, meaning he lied. According to custom, knowledge is not milk, and the Qur’an is not honey, but this is how you see it. If you have completed it, you will see it as knowl


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